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Retrieve LMS User Name as Variable
I know you can have a user fill in a text box with their name and then later use that variable for personalization. What we would like to do is programmatically retrieve the user name from the LMS....
For anyone not using Docebo (which handles complex surnames like De Palma or Van Gogh) , Chat GPT recommended the following amendments to the code:
var player = GetPlayer();
function findLMSAPI(win) {
if (win.hasOwnProperty("GetStudentID")) return win;
else if (win.parent == win) return null;
else return findLMSAPI(win.parent);
}
var lmsAPI = findLMSAPI(this);
var myName = lmsAPI.GetStudentName();
if (myName.charAt(0) === ' ') {
myName = myName.substring(1);
}
var regex = /([^,]+),(.+)/;
var match = myName.match(regex);
var lastName = match[1];
var firstName = match[2];
player.SetVar("firstName", firstName);
player.SetVar("lastName", lastName);
